Events Calendar

A new tradition born out of the Pandemic of 2020, when Wednesday Chapel became Wednesday Reflections. And now, we are Wednesday Gatherings – an hour featuring CTS faculty, students and community speakers and activists. These events provide insightful conversation from provocative leaders working towards greater justice. Join us every Wednesday at noon central.

On Wednesday, October 6, the Trauma-Informed Clergy student group will be presenting The Stigmatic: Bearing Trauma as the Body of Christ.  The discussion will be led by M.Div. student Liz Pence and will revolve around our collective and individual responsibility to tend to the often-invisible wound of trauma on the body and the Body.

Zoom Link: https://ctschicago-edu.zoom.us/j/97135339976

A new tradition born out of the Pandemic of 2020, when Wednesday Chapel became Wednesday Reflections. And now, we are Wednesday Gatherings – an hour featuring CTS faculty, students and community speakers and activists. These events provide insightful conversation from provocative leaders working towards greater justice. Join us every Wednesday at noon central.

On Wednesday, October 13, CTS President Emerita Susan Thistlethwaite will discuss her new book, What She Will Become, with legendary feminist theologian and Episcopal priest Carter Heyward. The pair will talk about themes of sexuality and the “Lavender Scare” in the 1960s, which provides the backdrop for the book.

From the publisher:

As the turbulent Kennedy administration begins, Alexandra Zsofia Bel, a congressional staffer with a suspicious past, investigates the murder of a State Department lawyer despite risks to her own life. Alex has changed her last name to Bell, her hair color to blond, and her life story to middle-class American to get a job in government. She had hoped to keep her personal history a secret in her new life in Washington, but she risks exposure to catch a murderer before J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI catches her first.

Alex finds the corruption in the nation’s capital stinks like the sewage-laden Potomac River. She, along with her little dog Miss Bea, a cynical beagle and Jack Russell mix, follow the scent, and she also has to use new Washington contacts as well as her family’s connections to find the killer and reveal a conspiracy. This novel is the first of a planned series featuring Alex Bell that will be set in the volatile decade of the 1960s.

Zoom Link: https://ctschicago-edu.zoom.us/j/97135339976

PLEASE JOIN US OCTOBER 14 FOR THE ANNUAL C. SHELBY ROOKS LECTURE WITH DR. KERI L. DAY

Keri L. Day teaches constructive theology and ethics at Princeton Theological Semi­­nary. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America as well as Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives.

Dr. Day’s lecture will be titled “When the Spirit Moves: Rethinking Azusa.”

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Keri Day is an Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. She earned an M.A. in Religion and Ethics from Yale University Divinity School and received her Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University. Her academic research focuses on how African American theology and black religious thought address global economics, especially among women of the African Diaspora. Her articles and essays on religion, culture, and economics have been published in several nationally regarded journals. She has authored three academic books, Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (2012); Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (2015); and Notes of a Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education (2021). She currently has her next book, Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging, under contract with Stanford University Press, which will be published summer of 2022. She has also been recognized by ABC News as one of six black women at the center of gravity in theological education in America.

Alongside her scholarship, she also engages public policy leaders. She has participated in White House briefings in Washington D.C. to discuss issues related to economic policy, religious freedom, faith-based initiatives, human rights efforts, and peace building efforts around the world. She has been a guest political commentator on KERA/NPR, DFW/FOX News, and HuffPost Live with Marc Lamont Hill on issues related to faith and politics. She has written for the New York Daily News, The Christian Century, The Feminist Wire, and The Huffington Post.

A new tradition born out of the Pandemic of 2020, when Wednesday Chapel became Wednesday Reflections. And now, we are Wednesday Gatherings – an hour featuring CTS faculty, students and community speakers and activists. These events provide insightful conversation from provocative leaders working towards greater justice. Join us every Wednesday at noon central.

Join us on Wednesday, October 20, for a discussion on how to live through transitions with Interim President Dr. Marsha Foster Boyd and Interim Dean Rabbi Dr. Rachel Mikva!

Zoom Link: https://ctschicago-edu.zoom.us/j/97135339976